Silly or Safe? Bike Condoms A New Niche Product for Bike Sharing

In bike-sharing mecca Barcelona, there's a new way to make waste - put a pair of bike condoms onto the handles of the shared bike you are just about to take for a spin. Perhaps these are necessary gear for the germ-phobic who haven't yet read right here on TreeHugger that a little bit of bacteria may be a good thing. Originally created for gym enthusiasts (the video after the jump, while in Spanish, is suggestive enough for anyone to understand), these handle covers are now creeping onto the streets. Yet will these same germophobes be careful to peel off the product - and properly dispose of it?SPOT - Si tocas, Cyclean from Cyclean on Vimeo. Via Cyclean.com"If you are going to touch...Cyclean"That's the slogan for this product, and Cyclean claims that in Barcelona alone, there's a big market for bike handle condoms, since 130,000 people are signed up for bike sharing, and six million trips have been made. Those are great numbers for a successful bike sharing program, Bicing. But are the germs a worry?